haw! pretentious shitbag

Originally Posted by DerAuslander108

Gotcha.

So...you know nothing of the different varieties of kimchi then? The subtle and not so subtle flavorings?

I am absolutely no expert on kimchee. I only know that I have encountered kimchee of different color and taste in different parts of Korea, and that the kimchee I have had in Japan contained no metallic **** taste. Perhaps one needs to be a great Connoisseur like yourself to detect the subtle **** flavor. All the years you spent eating **** must serve you well in such evaluation.:icon_roll

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Yup; same as the difference between Kendo and Kenjutsu. (Kendo being some bastardized form of combatsport than a functional martial art. Just like Modern Fencing.)

I guess there's a pattern here: avoid any Japanese martial art with a title that ends with 'do'. :)

Congrats with the search function. Your next assignment will be to figure out what "do" means and what it entails. Focus on Jigoro Kano and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police competitions in the early 20th century.

If people find themselves flipping out about Kyudo not being the Toyama Ryu of archery, what Karl Friday says about the Japanese martial arts in Legacies of the Sword will be of interest. Namely, the defining characteristic of bugei being its development into something comparable with the fine arts. I believe this to be especially true of Kyudo; whereas Kendo and Naginata offer a competitive element that may make for some semblence of combat training, both rule systems are geared towards achieving ippon and not surviving an encounter. This is rarely the focus anymore in Gendai Budo.

Congrats with the search function. Your next assignment will be to figure out what "do" means and what it entails. Focus on Jigoro Kano and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police competitions in the early 20th century.

My post was meant to be a joke. :P

However, just to make sure I understood this correctly, are you saying that Kendo & Naginata are still martially sound just because they are competitive and martially based?